May 23

A-N-O-T-H-E-R  BIG Day!

I am on such a roll!  Today I had five selections on the card.  I passed the first and then, much like yesterday, I won with my first selection in a 2-year-old Maiden Special.  Lucky Player was, like yesterday's juvenile winner, trained by Steve Asmussen.  Today though Ricardo Santana was riding.  This was as much a vote against Lucky Player's rivals today, as a vote FOR him.  It helped to have solid connections and four sharp works locally.  He rated in third professionally behind dueling front runners, caught them in the stretch and drew off as much the best.  The price of 3/5 was a fair price all things considered.  I ran second in the next race despite the fact that Sugar Run Wild was a CD 40% Club angle for trainer Mark Casse.  He led into the stretch and looked like a winner, but was caught, battled valiantly and in the end was out-finished.  But the score of the day came in the 4th where Jester and Me was sent out by Michael Maker with Rosie Napravnik on board.  Duh.  Two Churchill 40% Club angles were in play....Napravnik alone on board is a 41% win angle with Maker raining, and then Jester was making his 3rd start off a layoff - that my friends is a HUGE 64% win angle for Maker.  Certainly this runner will be the favorites, or at least a short priced second choice.  He stalked to the stretch then when Rosie said "GO" he was LONG gone, winning as track announcer called, "....for fun..."  But here's the best part - somehow the crowd let him go off at a big 4/1! 

The payoff of $10.60 multiplied times my double investment brought me a return of over $50 and I was guaranteed another winning day.  I was third in the seventh after leading into the stretch when under pressure and then weakened.  In the final pick of the day I trailed throughout finishing seventh.  For the day I was 2-for-5 (with two other in-the-money finishes), for a profit of over $20!